Kate Beaton offers a hilarious summary of what I’ll be discussing in this comic. Check it out. Now don’t get me wrong, I am a true believer that the ownership of one’s sexuality is truly empowering. But what I’m going to argue today is that by objectifying even the strongest, most independent characters can and…

Appreciating the Women in Games Killzone is a 2004 game developed by Guerrilla Games. As a whole, the plot is fairly predictable and the villain is extremely campy. However, the character interactions are well crafted and hilarious. One of my favourite quotes is from this game. The player picks up new playable characters as they…

So this is the newly released Bioshock Infinite cover: Ken Levine justified the decision for the unimaginative, unoriginal, unsatisfying cover in an interview with WIRED magazine. “We went and did a tour… around to a bunch of, like, frathouses and places like that. People who were gamers. Not people who read IGN. And [we] said,…

In the last couple of weeks we’ve looked at a series of articles focusing unsurprisingly on issues of gender, representation and feminism in games. These articles have been a wonderfully brain wrinkling experience for me and you can find the sources in our recommended readings section on the blog. They have however raised a number…